Binding: Hardcover. Early
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, NY
Date Published: 1902
Description: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Navy blue and gilt cloth covers are rubbed at extremities, gilt on front cover and spine is a bit dulled, spine is slightly faded. Fore-edge and bottom page ends are untrimmed, top page ends are gilt that is slightly dulled and rubbed. The tissue guards protecting the frontispiece of the two volumes is intact. Tight, square, pages clean and bright, no ownership or other marks of any kind. The biography of John Paul Jones, founder of the American Navy, a handsome ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900.
Date Published: 1900
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 8vo. With 7 illustrations. Original gilt stamped blue cloth, t.e.g., other uncut. Very good. 2 volumes. No dust jackets. Bookplate of Arthur J. Roth on the front pastedown of each volume. read more
Description: Good; Collectible. FIRST EDITION! 1900 Scribners Hardbacks, no dj. 2 Vols. Gilt topedge & design. Color Illustration. Good overall condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY! ! (B) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribners, New York
Date Published: 1900
Description: Good. Maroon cloth, 2 volumes complete. Light shelfwear to boards, spines a little faded. Some light scuffing to cover of Volume 1. Front hinge to Volume 1 is weakened. Heavy foxing to title pages, light foxing elsewhere, although text block is mostly free of foxing. 328 and 373 pages, notes, bibliography, index. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1900
Description: VG. Complete in two volumes; blue cloth, gilt; light wear and little soiling to fore edge, slight fraying at top of back strip (vol. I), very small amount of pencil marks; ex library with usual markings; contents clean and complete. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1906
Description: Fair to Good in None jacket. Two volume set; Wear on spine, corners of books w/parts of both worn off; fading on both front covers & inscriptions inside. read more
Binding: Duodecimos
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1901
Description: Full cloth. Black & white plates. xvi, 328 & viii, 379 pages. Good. The biography that, despite dubious scholarship, made John Paul Jones the patron saint of the U.S. Navy in Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive era. This work is the source of the mantra, "Qualifications of a Naval Officer, " which generations of midshipmen were required to memorize as the words of John Paul Jones but which now is understood to have been fabricated here by Buell. This set is bound in blue cloth over boards with gilt ... read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. Scribner's 1st ed, first printing, Charles Scribner's Sons 1900. VOL. 2 Only. VG blue cloth in no DJ. Scuffs at tail of spine. Bright gilt ship embossed front cover. Except for W L Marybury's signature on FFEP, no reader's marks. Illus. frontis. Bio. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, N. Y
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780836957860ISBN:0836957865
Description: Very Good. Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy a history. This books is from new old stock, meaning it has never been used but may have wear from long term storage. May be a reprint. ISBN: 0836957865 Subject Heading: Jones, John Paul; Sailors Note: Reprint of the 1900 ed.; Bibliography: v. 2, p. 355-359. read more
Description: Very good. First ed. 1900 Scribner's.2 Volumes. Decorative blue cloth/gilt boards. Gilt top pg edges. Solid bindings. Clean text&covers. Illustrations. Colored tissue covered frontispiece in vol 1. read more
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